On this day in 1919, in Catalonia, Spain a general strike broke out when thousands of workers across multiple industries went out on strike, causing widespread power outages and the government to declare a state of war. The strike was initiated after an energy company, La Canadenca, reduced wages and fired over one hundred striking workers who were protesting the pay cuts. This and the curbing of labor rights prompted the rest of the workers at La Canadenca to go on strike and demand the readmission of those sacked and wage increases.
The strike soon spread to other companies in the sector via the CNT’s union for water, gas and electricity workers. The lack of electricity in the city affected transport, hampering the provision of supplies and paralyzing 70% of factories in the province of Barcelona.
A state of war was declared by the government and over 3,000 workers were detained. Despite this, the strike ended after two days on the conditions of no repercussions for participating workers, a wage increase, and an 8 hour work day.
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La Canadiense and Barcelona general strike, 1919 - Sam Lowry :AC-AnarKitty:
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He’s much, much better than the fouding fathers at the very least
Losing my mind that the same week Michigan confirmed multiple counties have the more contagious B.1.1.7 variant they continue to open indoor dining AND contact school sports start next week.
GIRL BOSS GRETCH.
So fucking glad my shitty food service job fired me after I put my two weeks in lol. I would’ve been terrified if I had to buss tables during this thing dude. Also, it’s kind of stupid to me how all of the worst brunch libs celebrate Whitmer for how “well” she’s handling the pandemic when our universities literally have some of the most advanced medical labs in the country, so we could’ve pulled out some CRISPR machines or some shit months ago and got to work while employing lots of researchers and distributing the country’s only publicly-researched vaccine. Instead of that tho, we have to sit through this clusterfuck
